美语听力60秒 | 诺贝尔化学奖得主制作可用光切换的抗生素

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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I’m Steve Mirsky.

这里是科学美国人——60秒科学。我是 Steve Mirsky。

Yesterday, January 24 th, 2018, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina ran into Ben Feringa. He shared the 2016 Nobel Prize for chemistry for designing and creating molecules that function as microscopic machines.

昨天，即 2018 年 1 月 24 日，《科学美国人》主编 Mariette DiChristina 在达沃斯举行的世界经济论坛上遇到了 Ben Feringa。他因设计并创造用作微观机器的分子而共享了 2016 年诺贝尔化学奖。

MD: Ben Feringa and I are walking through Davos about to go to our next appointment. And I was just asking Professor Feringa, what was exciting to him right now?

MD：Ben Feringa 和我正在达沃斯穿行，前往下一个约定地点。我正在问 Feringa 教授他现在对什么有什么兴趣？

BF: The most exciting thing probably we’re working on now is to make antibiotics that we can switch with light. So we have, you know antibiotics is a real big problem, antibiotic resistance, and what we do is we build in light switches in antibiotics, and they’re off, and then we can switch them on with light, and after 24 hours when they have done their job, they switch off automatically.

BF：可能我们正在做的最令人兴奋的事情，就是制作可以用光来切换的抗生素。你知道，抗生素是真正重要的问题，抗生素耐药性是严重隐患，而我们做的是将光开关植入抗生素中，开关关闭时，我们可以用光来启动，24 小时后它们完成工作时便会自动关闭。

And the bugs don’t build up resistance. And it works. And recently we got it done with red light, and that’s really exciting, because now we can get light into the body, because red light…

这些超级细菌不会增加耐药性。这个方法有效。最近我们用红光完成了抗生素切换，这令人非常兴奋，因为现在我们可以把红光照进身体，因为红光……

MD: Goes deeper.

MD：照得更深入。

BF: Goes very deep in the body. And that gives us a lot of opportunities to develop these smart drugs.

BF：红光能照进身体非常深的地方。这使我们有很多机会来研发这些智能药物。

For a video of a longer conversation between Mariette DiChristina and Ben Feringa go to the World Economic Forum homepage, and search for Ben Feringa.

如果大家想观看 Mariette DiChristina 和 Ben Feringa 的长对话视频，请登录世界经济论坛主页，搜索 Ben Feringa 的相关信息。

For Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I’m Steve Mirsky.

谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学。我是 Steve Mirsky。

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